Rolf Krause is chair of advanced scientific computing and the director of the institute of computational science in the faculty of informatics.
From 2003 to 2009, he was professor at the University of Bonn. During that time he spent a sabbatical at UC San Diego (USA) and Columbia University New York (USA). In 2002 he was on a Postdoctoral research visit at the Courant Institute (NYU, New York). He holds a Diploma and a PhD (2000) in Mathematics from the FU Berlin (Germany). His research focuses on numerical simulation and mathematical modeling in scientific computing and computational sciences, in particular the development of theoretical well founded simulationmethods, which show excellent performance also in real world applications. He is associate editor of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC).